The City of Santa Ana is seeking applications for its Investing in the Artist Grant: Arts Organizations (2024 – 2025).
Donor Name: City of Santa Ana
State: California
City: Santa Ana
Type of Grant: Grant | Reimbursement
Deadline: 10/21/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The City of Santa Ana will support creative projects that explore the dynamic relationship between arts & culture and economics. This encourages nonprofit arts organizations to engage with the city’s economic and cultural fabric through participatory and interactive works, inviting the community to actively reflect on and contribute to the conversation, specifically how the arts and creative industries impact the city’s economic landscape, cultural identity, and community well-being.
They invite submissions from artists and arts organizations working in various mediums—visual arts, performance, music, creative writing, digital media, and more—who will not only explore the intersection of arts & culture and economics but also design projects that involve direct participation from the residents, businesses, and communities of Santa Ana.
Potential ideas to consider:
- Projects that invite the community to explore how the arts & culture drive the city’s economy.
- Collaborative works that engage citizens in imagining or influencing the future development of creative spaces in the city.
- Projects that ask the community to contribute stories, images, or artifacts related to Santa Ana’s cultural heritage, focusing on the role this heritage plays in tourism and the local economy.
- Interactive exhibitions or public engagements that highlight how art and culture are valued economically and socially.
- Projects that invite participation from underrepresented communities to address economic inequities in the cultural sector.
Funding Priorities
- Activating geographical areas in Santa Ana underserved by the arts.
- Collaborations/partnerships among different entities across artistic and non-artistic fields.
Funding Information
The Arts & Culture Office is seeking to award grants in the amount of up to $20,000 for arts organizations/cooperatives that will enrich and invigorate the Santa Ana arts and culture landscape with Art & Economy: Shaping Santa Ana’s Future Through Collaborative Creative Expression and will be distributed in two (2) payments.
Grant Period
The grant period will be for 12 months and will require an interim and final report of outcomes achieved, including an itemized budget with documentation such as receipts. This is a REIMBURSEMENT grant.
Eligibility Criteria
Nonprofit arts and culture organizations/cooperatives that meet the following criteria are welcome to apply:
- Organizations with arts, culture, design, or creative innovation focus.
- Organization must be based in Santa Ana and/or serve Santa Ana communities.
- Projects can be small in scope and do not need to serve large numbers of people as long as they positively impact the organization’s purpose or mission.
- A project may be a part of an applicant’s regular season or activities. Organizations that undertake a single short-term project in a year—a dance festival, for example—could apply for support for that event or they could identify certain components of their operations, such as securing rehearsal space, marketing activities, paying artists, etc., as their project.
- A representative from the organization must attend one Information Session.
- Applicants may not apply for consecutive grant cycles for the same project.
- Only one application per project will be accepted. Organizations may not apply separately for the same project.
- Grant recipients who have not completed their projects from prior grant cycles will not be eligible to apply this year. This includes completing their final reports.
- Grant recipients who withdrew from program in the prior year, will be ineligible to reapply for the following two years.
- Applicants engaged in active litigation with the City, have outstanding balances with the City, and/or have active code enforcement violations, or a history of multiple code enforcement violations are not eligible for the program.
For more information, visit City of Santa Ana.
